First a food truck, then a restaurant, now a bar. The Curry Up Now enterprise has expanded into drinks, offering a bar in the back of its downtown San Mateo locale.

Spinning off the restaurant's theme of Indian street food with a California sensibility, Mortar & Pestle infuses its specialty cocktails with the spices and herbs of the subcontinent. They go great with Curry Up Now's Mexican-Indian-American snacks, which you can order from your seat in the bar. So head for the more unusual concoctions, which incorporate garam masala syrup, blackstrap bitters or kaffir lime. You can get a Manhattan anywhere.